The Lake Norman Wildcats will challenge the Hickory Ridge Ragin' Bulls at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Both teams are coming into the matchup red-hot, with Lake Norman sitting on eight straight victories and Hickory Ridge on four.
Lake Norman's defense heads into the match hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Thursday. They won by a goal and slipped past West Cabarrus 1-0. Pate Robillard had the honor of scoring the game-winner for the Wildcats.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Hickory Ridge). Everything went their way against South Iredell on Thursday as Hickory Ridge made off with a 9-0 win. Considering the Ragin' Bulls have won five contests by more than two goals this season, Thursday's blowout was nothing new.
Lake Norman is on a roll lately: they've won nine of their last ten games, which provided a nice bump to their 15-2-1 record this season. As for Hickory Ridge, their victory was their sixth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 12-2-1.
Lake Norman skirted past Hickory Ridge 2-1 in their previous matchup back in September. The rematch might be a little tougher for Lake Norman since the team won't have the home-pitch advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.
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